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Tax-Exempt Groups to Face
More Audits Under IRS Plan

By

Elizabeth MacDonald Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Feb. 10, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

An Internal Revenue Service plan obtained by The Wall Street Journal shows that the agency intends to increase its audits of nonprofit organizations, and that they can be triggered by heightened media coverage of a group's political activity.

In addition, IRS officials who discussed the plan with the Journal tried to quell the growing concern that the agency is conducting politically motivated audits of tax-exempt groups. The agency...